Week 46: Crazy Colombian Week

Hola familia y amigos!

This last week was pretty crazy. Wednesday  I had an intercambio with Elder Amick, he's really cool I was with him when we were both in Villo, had a good day, taught some good people and had a good time.   Thursday and Friday was not to great, I was pretty sick so we didn't get to do a whole lot. Then Saturday was back to normal, had an awesome leccion con Lina y Jorge they're amazing people and they just want to do the right things and come closer to God. It's cool to see them change so fast, they have a better relationship, they're happier and they even invited their family to go to church with them! 

Then we had some other good things, passed by lots of our investigadores to invite them to church. Then Sunday came, we had 6 investigadores at church and that was awesome. Than we had a leccion later that day with some of our investigadores that came to church, they live in a super poor part of leticia. They live in a wooden house on stilts sticking out of a large stream by the amazon river, the told us how every year when the river rises their house floods and they cant live there.  Also how last year  they lived for a month in a public park because they had nowhere to live. It was extremely sad and humbling to hear their story, and even though all this stuff has happened to them and they're super poor they're always super happy no matter what. They’re  a great example to me of what we need to focus on in life and how we can decide if we want to be happy or not no matter our circumstances. We're going to keep working with them and we're going to get them married and baptized!! Then Monday was insane, we went on a bike ride with the young men in a place called "Kilometros" in our area it's literally just a road that goes on for kilometers. We biked out with them on these small women's bikes out into the middle of nowhere where some members friends have a house. It was pretty fun, we played town of salem with the young men, laid in hammocks and ate a good lunch. Then we rode back and got our haircut. 

Was a really good week, excited for this upcoming week, the World Cup is going to start this week so that's going to be crazy here cuz I'm right on the border of  

Colombia and Brazil, we'll see what happens! I love and miss you guys hope you're all doing well, enjoying summer and enjoying life!! I want you all to know that Christ lives and he loves you! He's always there for us when we do our part! I hope you all can put  Christ  at the center of your lives  this week and see the happiness that he brings!!

Elder McBride

Week 45: Pictures

 Leadership training

Starbucks Hot Chocolate

 Mission President

 Tierra’s Amazonicas Restaurant

Pizza in honor of Elder Jeppson

Week 45: Surprise Temple trip, Presidente came down to Leticia, and some weird transfers!

Hola familia y amigos!

This week was pretty crazy. Tuesday started off in Bogota, we had a
leader's meeting and I saw a bunch of my friends including Elder
Gregersen and Elder Gutierrez(pics will come if Leticia allows). Then after the meeting ended some other Elders  from Florencio came up to me and told me we could go to the Temple.  We took the public bus to the Temple, we were running in the streets of Bogota to get there on time and we barely got there but it was amazing to get to go to the Temple again! Then Wednesday  morning we left Bogota we had a  good McDonald's Breakfast and we got Starbuck,  wow It had been awhile since I'd had a Starbucks hot choclate and it was amazing. 

We get back to Leticia and...our house had flooded haha. So we spent all day
taking all of our stuff out of the house and sweeping and mopping the house till it all dried out that wasn't so fun.  Then Friday President and his wife came down and they took us out to lunch with them at Tierras Amazonicas! I love them so much I'm sad they're finishing their mission but I'm happy to get to start with President Palhoa
pretty soon. 

Saturday we did a lot of contacting, we contacted in a super poor part of our area and found some people that don't know how to read, it's extremely humbling to be in a part of the world where the people have challenges like that, it makes me realize how blessed we are to have good education and how we need to take advantage of it.
Then Sunday was good, our investigador Jorge walked 3 hours from Brazil so he could get to church, that was amazing to me, it was amazing to see how important the church already is to him and the sacrifice he made to get there, later that night we had a leccion with him and his wife Lina. We taught them the Word of Wisdom and they committed to drop alcohol and coffee right away, they're super amazing people and I'm so glad I have the opportunity to help them recieve all the blessings that our Heavenly Father has for us when we keep his commandments. 

Then yesterday the Zone leaders got here Elder Amick and Elder Rabelo, they're cool guys, we had some lecciones.  Then we got a call that Elder Jeppson is getting transfered up to Bogota, that was sad I'm really going to miss him. So in his honor we ordered a giant pizza and I mean giant because 6 missionaries couldn't even finish it!
That's it from this last week, pretty crazy, this week is going to be a normal week again hopefully. I love and miss all you guys! Hope you're all doing well and have a great week!!

Nos Vemos!

Elder McBride